SKT7 Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 I am facing very slow performance when I open line drawings in PDF format exported from CAD Software. Every operation (such as drag-select, deselect, group, ungroup, move, copy, paste etc) freezes the system for short or sometimes 5-15 sec or more! Initially, I was thinking it could be because the drawings are complex and have too many curves - but then I noticed that it's happening even for simple drawings as well. It works fine when very complex graphics developed naively in AD though. Has anyone else noticed such an issue? I have attached an example file with I am facing such slowdown issue. I am running Designer 1.7.2.471 on Windows 10, 64bit, Intel i7 6700, 16GB ram, NVIDA 6GB GTX 970M Graphics. line drawing slow performance_product.afdesign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SKT7 Posted September 17, 2019 Author Share Posted September 17, 2019 Thanks for the reply. How much ram is recommenced for such a simple file. Also, if I create much more complex file in AD itself, it does not give slowdown issue - it seems to happen when it's imported from CAD - what's the reason for that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted September 17, 2019 Staff Share Posted September 17, 2019 Hi saikat, Thanks for the file - I'm going to look into this... Designer didn't perform this badly a while ago with files like this, so it can definitely be resolved... Leave it with me Hopefully you can see from the rendering performance that we have no fundamental issues with there being this many objects in the document, but it appears that something in our command architecture is now incurring an overhead, which with larger selections is becoming noticeable. I feel sure we can make this go away... Matt SKT7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazmondo77 Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 Turn off snapping - you should see an improvement Quote Mac Pro Cheese-grater (Early 2009) 2.93 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon 48 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC Ram, Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8GB GDDR5, Ugee 19" Graphics Tablet Monitor Triple boot via OCLP 1.2.1 - Mac OS Monterey 12.7.1, Sonoma 14.1.1 and Mojave 10.14.6 Affinity Publisher, Designer and Photo 1.10.5 - 2.2.1 www.bingercreative.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Sean P Posted September 17, 2019 Staff Share Posted September 17, 2019 1 hour ago, MattP said: but it appears that something in our command architecture is now incurring an overhead, which with larger selections is becoming noticeable. I feel sure we can make this go away... I guess that would explain why the performance is significantly better when you group all the major areas together! line drawing slow performance_product_grouped.afdesign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted September 17, 2019 Staff Share Posted September 17, 2019 Yes, it does explain why things are faster when they're grouped. The problem seems to be around some of the picture frame/text flow changes added for Publisher... they should be easy enough to get around so we'll try to sort them out asap Sorry for the inconvenience in the meantime... SKT7 and Sean P 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SKT7 Posted September 17, 2019 Author Share Posted September 17, 2019 1 hour ago, MattP said: Hi saikat, Thanks for the file - I'm going to look into this... Designer didn't perform this badly a while ago with files like this, so it can definitely be resolved... Leave it with me Hopefully you can see from the rendering performance that we have no fundamental issues with there being this many objects in the document, but it appears that something in our command architecture is now incurring an overhead, which with larger selections is becoming noticeable. I feel sure we can make this go away... Matt Really appreciate your reply. Good to know that the issue is real!! Also, as you said, I did not notice such slowdown issue before the last major update (that came with Publisher launch) if I remember correctly. I need to use a lot of CAD generated line drawings like this ... so, such slowdown is making it almost unusable (especially with other files which are much more complex than the attached one). Resolving this issue would be extremely helpful to me. @Dazmondo77 yes turning off snapping does seem to help to an extent. MattP 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenfoo Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 I'm experiencing the same issue with architectural drawings imported from a PDF. I'm not sure which application they originate from, but I could figure this out if it matters. Anyway, I was writing this off as due to the complexity of the files, but, after seeing this thread, I'm again hopeful that something fundamental is off that could lead to big improvements when fixed. Let me know if providing a file experiencing this issue would help! MattP 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKT7 Posted September 30, 2019 Author Share Posted September 30, 2019 @MattP On 9/17/2019 at 2:37 PM, MattP said: Hi saikat, Thanks for the file - I'm going to look into this... Designer didn't perform this badly a while ago with files like this, so it can definitely be resolved... Leave it with me Hopefully you can see from the rendering performance that we have no fundamental issues with there being this many objects in the document, but it appears that something in our command architecture is now incurring an overhead, which with larger selections is becoming noticeable. I feel sure we can make this go away... Matt Hi Matt, Iis there any update on this performance issue? Is it going to be addressed in the upcoming beta/release? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted September 30, 2019 Staff Share Posted September 30, 2019 Hi saikat, There have been a number of fixes already made for version 1.8 that should address the bulk of this, hopefully we can improve things much further in the future too... We are about to release a 1.7.3 version which is mainly compatibility fixes, but we plan to make 1.8 beta available in the not-too-distant future Many thanks, Matt A_B_C 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKT7 Posted October 1, 2019 Author Share Posted October 1, 2019 Thank you Matt. Look forward to V1.8 resolving this issue that's crippling my workflow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKT7 Posted February 26, 2020 Author Share Posted February 26, 2020 Just downloaded 1.8. This is issue seems to have been resolved! Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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